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Monday, December 7, 2009
Cal State Students Protest Budget Cuts
Students are coming out in waves to protest the proposed school budget cuts. Gov. Schwarzenegger's office has been inundated with angry students who want answers as to why they have to pay more for less. There is a $584 million deficit that the state can't make up for in time for the next school year.
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Cal State Students Protest Budget Cuts
And another link:
When They Cut, We All Bleed
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So their answer is to raise tuition for the students currently attending school, making it more difficult to stay, and putting a hold on all students who were planning on going to college? They don't realize that what they are doing is discouraging students to go to college after high school, because let's face it, who wants to wait until the gov't feels it's the right time to start allowing students back into Cal State and UC colleges? That could take forever! Not to mention, it will greatly impact Community Colleges, also affecting students who wish to transfer. For those students who are almost finished with school, they are becomming discouraged as well because it is now too expensive to stay in school!
ReplyDeleteIt's just frustrating to deal with all of this cause at one end you have the state saying that the schools have to figure it out, and at the other end you have the schools saying they don't get enough state funding. That's a bad Catch 22. The better catch of it all is that while the California bureaucracy chases it's own tail, we are stuck with the bill. Nice.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I like the furlough days, its makes the classes go by faster, and I like to see them as paying for a vacation. Students ditched class all the time before the budget cuts and would show up the week before finals, so now we just have to pay an extra 500 dollars a semester to take our vacations. It's like buying a plane ticket and a few nights at a hotel.
ReplyDeleteIts like were spending more money for no say in what its used for. We pay more money, for less classes, less education, less access to on campus facilies (with library hour cuts), further delaying our gradution dates or making it harder to enjoy a college experience.
ReplyDeleteIt sucks that our generation is getting hit so hard with the recession. I guess you never really fully understand things until you actually experience them. I'm even discouraged to get my masters because of how much further in debt it will make me. People shouldn't be penalized for getting an education.
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